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Coralinho Bay we disturbed two large flocks of Dunlins, 

 among which were some Kentish Plovers ; a little later on, 

 three Curlew-Sandpipers and two Black-tailed Godwits. 



November Wth, Sao Nicolau. A Swallow in company with 

 a number of Swifts (Cypselus unicolor). 



November 20th, Maio. The extensive salt-pans close to 

 the sea were crowded with migrants. Dunlins, Knots, 

 Greenshanks, and Sanderlings observed, while two Avocets 

 kept flying from one pool to another. Over a large stretch 

 of soft mud further inland Kentish Plovers ran to and fro 

 busily feeding, uttering now and again their plaintive, 

 tremulous whistles, which we still heard long after dusk 

 had fallen. 



November 22nd. A pair of Wheatears among some ruined 

 huts close to the shore. They were very shy, but we suc- 

 ceeded iu obtaining the female (in moult), which proved to 

 be the large northern form of our Saxicola oenanthe. Around 

 the same huts we killed a male specimen of Eurystomus afer. 



On leaving Lisbon on December 20th, the sea, as far as 

 Corunna, presented an extraordinary sight, for over its sur- 

 face skimmed countless numbers of Gannets {Sula bassana), 

 that looked like innumerable moving specks of white in the 

 far distance. 



XXV. — Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 



Nos. XLIX.-LI. 



No. XLIX. (December 29th, 1897.) 



The forty-eighth Meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 

 15th of December, 1897. Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 

 Twenty-four Members and four guests were present. 



The Hon Walter Rothschild sent descriptions of the 

 following species of birds from New Guinea : — 



Cyclopsittacus macilwraithi, sp. n. 



Forehead to middle of crown and line round eyes black. 



